Sep 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senators from Vermont and members of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) urging him to immediately convene a full Committee hearing on President Trump’s reckless trade war…
Sep 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an oversight hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a fiery exchange with Kash Patel, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), about the FBI and the Trump Administration’s election interference efforts…
Sep 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today announced the delivery of more than $12 million in new federal funding, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to help fund repairs to infrastructure from the 2023 and 2024 floods. Infrastructure repair and replacement projects in the towns…
Sep 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin demanding information and records regarding the “mounting evidence of widespread corruption orchestrated by former Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
Sep 11, 2026
BURLINGTON, VT—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement on the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: “September 11th is a day that America will never forget. The pain of the attacks is felt to this day in New York,…